The Lavender Hill Mob

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The Lavender Hill Mob is a 1951 comedy film from Ealing Studios, written by T.E.B. Clarke, directed by Charles Crichton and starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway and Sid James as gold bullion thieves. The title refers to Lavender Hill, a...

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...best known for the film studio that gave birth to the classic Ealing comedies of the late 40s and 50s, including Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob. More recently the studios were brought back to life for an ill-advised remake...

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...through security barriers to find the diamonds replaced with fakes, and the flying squad waitingthe diamonds replaced with fakes. "More Lavender Hill Mob, trying something way out of their league," said author Kris Hollington. Marking he...

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...uniquely English comedy like "Twelve in a Box," but you'd be wrong. Like the old Ealing Studios comedies "Kind Hearts and Coronets," "The Lavender Hill Mob" and "The Ladykillers," "Box" packs some great -- but very English -- laughs.

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...to put Arsenal back in the lead. If some nefarious plan was afoot it went out of the window with Andrey Arshavin's goal after 36 minutes. The Lavender Hill Mob were more competent than Arsenal in their scheme to hand victory to...

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...then cut and sent to Hancox's home to be finished using a toner fuser machine. Their crime bored resemblances to the Ealing comedy the Lavender Hill Mob But Judge William Kennedy, sentencing at Snaresbrook Crown Court said: "There are...

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A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com This Ealing Studios crime caper/comedy is one of the studio's best, with Alec Guinness the nebbish, unlikely leader of a plan to steal a truckload of gold from the Bank...

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...that I got exposed, at the age of 8, to those British comedies introduced by the sonorous gong of the J. Arthur Rank Organization, like "The Lavender Hill Mob," and in 1955, the now-forgotten "The Little Kidnappers." I can't forget it; every...

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...on many hallowed sources of English comedy, including "The Goon Show," the "Carry On" movies, and Ealing Studio comedies such as "The Lavender Hill Mob." In the Golden Age of 1960s rock 'n' roll, the government-backed BBC transmitted...

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